Wood quality improvement for spotted gum

桉树是世界上最大的硬木锯材和纸浆原木来源之一。该项目将为木材质量的树木加速改良提供一个模式。其目的是将木材形成的基因与斑点树胶的木材质量表型联系起来，斑点树胶是澳大利亚北部的一种优先生长的硬木桉树。这种方法的意义在于，通过避免延迟产生替代方法所需的种群和分子育种提供的早期选择，节省了部署木材质量更高的种植园的时间和成本。

Eucalypts are one of the world's top sources of hardwood saw and pulp logs. This project will provide a model for accelerated tree improvement for wood quality. The aim is to link genes for wood formation with wood quality phenotypes in spotted gum, a priority hardwood eucalypt for Northern Australia. The significance of the approach is time and costs saved in the deployment of plantations of higher wood quality through the circumvention of delays to generate populations required for alternative approaches and early selection available with molecular breeding.